Pavlov VR20175 factsVankrupt GamesGame page →Pavlov is universally known as 'Counter-Strike in VR' — its flagship Search & Destroy mode directly mirrors CS bomb-defusal, and it's frequently described as the most popular multiplayer PC VR shooter.tvtropes.orgIt was a PlayStation VR2 launch title (February 2023) and topped Sony's official PSVR2 download charts for all of 2023 in both Europe and North America.uploadvr.comThe free Quest version 'Pavlov Shack' lived on App Lab from March 2021 — hitting ~3,000 concurrent players at launch — before becoming a paid Meta Quest Store release in November 2023.uploadvr.comIts deep modding scene runs on Steam Workshop and mod.io, with community maps adding whole modes — the fan-favourite TTT map 'Village' is modeled on Kakariko Village from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.uploadvr.comAfter nearly eight years in Early Access (from February 2017), it quietly hit 1.0 on 4 December 2024 with no official announcement post.vrnewstoday.comRead 3 more facts
Picontier20205 factsSkipmore · CIRCLE EntertainmentGame page →Picontier is part of a shared 'Skipmore multiverse': story writer KIMURA says all Skipmore games (Fairune, Kamiko, Transiruby, Picontier) take place in one universe at different periods, with recurring characters like Aila and the Dramos creatures.steamcommunity.comThe game spent roughly six years in development, from its ~2016 announcement through Early Access (November 2020) to full release in 2022.kan-kikuchi.hatenablog.comThe official soundtrack includes a bonus track titled 'Otherworld Kamiko', an explicit musical nod to Skipmore's earlier game Kamiko.youtube.comProgrammer Kan Kikuchi describes himself pre-Picontier as a developer with 'no technical skill, no hit game' who had written over 1,000 Unity blog articles; Picontier became his breakout collaboration with Skipmore.note.comPS4 and Nintendo 3DS versions were originally hoped for, but the game ultimately shipped only on PC and Switch (June 2023).mypotatogames.comRead 3 more facts
Pictonico!20265 factsNintendo EPD, Intelligent Systems · NintendoGame page →Pictonico! turns your photos into WarioWare-style microgames — snap a picture and the app builds ~80 touchscreen games around faces and objects in it.macrumors.comIt is co-developed by Intelligent Systems, the WarioWare studio — the microgame DNA is literal.en.wikipedia.orgIt is reportedly Nintendo's first original, non-franchise mobile game since Dragalia Lost in 2018.nintendoeverything.comPhotos never leave the device — the app needs internet only for first launch, language changes and volume purchases.macrumors.comNintendo revealed it through its own Nintendo Today! app rather than a Nintendo Direct; Nintendo Life called it "an effective translation of the WarioWare series onto a platform it was born to be on."nintendolife.comRead 3 more facts
Rhythm Heaven Groove20265 factsNintendo EPD, TNX · NintendoGame page →Rhythm Heaven Groove is the first mainline entry in the series in over a decade, following Rhythm Heaven Megamix (2015).en.wikipedia.orgSeries creator Tsunku♂ composed the soundtrack without his singing voice, having had his larynx removed following laryngeal cancer treatment in 2015.nintendoinquirer.comIt was co-developed by Nintendo EPD and TNX — Tsunku♂'s own music/entertainment company.en.wikipedia.orgIt includes 80+ single-player rhythm minigames and 30+ multiplayer minigames, plus an unlockable RPG-style "Beatspell" mode.nintendo.comReleased July 2, 2026 as a Switch title (fully playable on Switch 2 via backward compatibility), Wikipedia flags it as presumed to be the last Nintendo-created game published on the original Switch.en.wikipedia.orgRead 3 more facts
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis20215 factsBlack Eye Games · RavenscourtGame page →You never swing a sword: by day you craft and manage supplies for the last defenders on the walls; by night you send an unarmed civilian scavenging through the enemy-occupied city — the whole siege is fought from the supply line.store.steampowered.comThe This War of Mine influence is officially acknowledged — a developer wrote on the Steam forums that it 'was an inspiration to make Siege Survival', with the team adding new layers to the formula.steamcommunity.comThe soundtrack is by Marcin Przybyłowicz — The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077's composer — together with Magdalena Urbańska.store.steampowered.comThe spin-off outlived its parent: the Gloria Victis MMO and studio Black Eye Games shut down on Halloween 2023 after barely a year of full release, but Siege Survival remains on sale — and Gamigo has since picked up the MMO license for a relaunch.pcgamer.comIt ships with a built-in level editor and Steam Workshop support — unusual for a narrative survival-management game — plus a free standalone Prologue released nine months before launch.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
Slasher's Keep20205 factsDamian SchloterGame page →Slasher's Keep is by Damian Schloter, creator of the notorious Newgrounds satire Double Hitler — a QWOP-style physics comedy about two kids in a trenchcoat impersonating Hitler.pcgamer.comIts signature mechanic is the 'sack smack': you swing your bulging inventory sack as a weapon to knock enemies into spike walls and chasms for instant kills.pcgamer.comThe art style mixes cel-shaded 3D, hand-drawn sprites and procedural animation — a look press called 'rather unique' back at its 2015 Greenlight reveal.indieretronews.comIt offers procedural dungeons, drag-and-drop crafting, six playable races and optional permadeath — a roguelite twist on the classic first-person dungeon crawler.indieretronews.comIt took a very long road to 1.0 for a solo dev: Greenlight in January 2015, Early Access in February 2018, and full release in November 2020 — over five years.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
The Invisible Hand20215 factsPower Struggle Games · Fellow TravellerGame page →The title is an ironic jab at Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' — the classic metaphor for self-regulating free markets — deployed by a developer collective that describes itself as 'cheekily intent on dismantling Capitalism from the inside, through games'.powerstruggle.gamesWhen press tied the game to the GameStop short squeeze, the devs pushed back: 'The Invisible Hand has been in development since 2016. We were talking about short-selling before it was cool!'steamcommunity.comThe satire is mechanical: hitting your daily profit quota at the firm FERIOS practically requires shorting stocks, lobbying regulators, buying majority control and trading on insider information — the crimes ARE the message. A post-launch 'Family Office Update' added an endless mode about controlling a share of the global economy.store.steampowered.comThe writing comes from Will O'Neill, the narrative author behind Actual Sunlight and Little Red Lie — unusually heavyweight indie-writing pedigree for a small stock-market sim.fellowtravellerpresskit.comPlayers and critics split sharply: 82% positive from Steam users versus a 'Mixed' 69 on Metacritic — with some critics finding the anti-capitalist message too blunt while users embraced it.opencritic.comRead 3 more facts
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners20205 factsSkydance InteractiveGame page →Set in a flooded, post-outbreak New Orleans, players scavenge the ruins and chase the legend of 'The Reserve,' a supply-filled military bunker.blog.playstation.comCombat is fully physics-based — you must physically drive a blade into a walker's skull and use real force to pull it back out, and weapons degrade, a deliberate design to push smarter decisions.gamedeveloper.comIt became one of the best-selling VR titles ever, passing $29M revenue in its first year and later $50M+ and $60M+, with the franchise nearing $100M by 2024.roadtovr.comThe free 'Aftershocks' update (September 2021) added end-game content that hinted at the villain of the sequel, Chapter 2: Retribution.en.wikipedia.orgMade in partnership with Skybound Entertainment, the game is canon to Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic universe rather than the TV show.en.wikipedia.orgRead 3 more facts
Thrive20215 factsRevolutionary Games StudioGame page →Thrive is a free, open-source evolution simulation developed by Revolutionary Games Studio, a team of volunteers, and is often described as a scientifically-grounded spiritual successor to Spore's cell stage.thrive.fandom.comThe game plans nine stages — Microbe, Multicellular, Macroscopic, Aware, Awakening, Society, Industrial, Space and Ascension — taking a species from a single cell to cosmic dominance; only the earliest stages are currently playable.revolutionarygamesstudio.comThe project grew out of the Spore community in 2009 and was renamed 'Thrive' in 2010; its first playable gameplay release, v0.2.3, arrived in mid-2014, and Steam/itch.io Early Access followed in 2021.wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.comThrive migrated engines twice — from a custom engine to the in-house 'Leviathan' engine, then to the open-source Godot engine (with C#) around 2020.wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.comVersion 1.0.0, marking a feature-complete Microbe Stage, released on 17 December 2025.wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.comRead 3 more facts
Trader Life Simulator20215 factsMohammed QasrawiGame page →The game was delisted from Steam by its own developer (owners keep library access), and its 2022 sequel's removal was likewise announced in December 2024 — a recurring pattern that drew community criticism about abandoned titles.steamcommunity.comThe mobile port shipped under a completely different brand: 'Goldfinch Games' on Google Play and the App Store — the same developer's separate publishing identity from PC label DNA ARMY GAMING.play.google.comUnusually for a shop-management game, your character has survival needs — hunger and hygiene meters, with illness if you don't eat or shower — layered on top of running the supermarket.filecr.comIt predates Supermarket Simulator (2024) by three years, making it an early entrant in the supermarket-sim wave rather than a follower.store.steampowered.comFor a tiny solo-dev indie it shipped with a 10-language interface — including Turkish and Arabic — and spawned a whole series: Trader Life Simulator 2 (2022), Traders Life Simulator and the co-op Traders Life Together.gg.dealsRead 3 more facts
Unfortunate Spacemen20205 factsSandswept Studios · New Blood InteractiveGame page →It went free-to-play on 12 June 2020 (revealed at the PC Gaming Show 2020), leaving more than four years of Early Access.pcgamesn.comThe 2020 free-to-play relaunch was published by New Blood Interactive (of Dusk and Amid Evil fame); founder Geoff 'Zag' Keene later continued the game under Deep Field Games, self-publishing since 2021.thegamer.comIts monetization is cosmetics-only — the developers pledged no loot boxes, no in-game currencies and no battle passes.mmobomb.comThe arctic map 'Outpost 13' is a direct homage to John Carpenter's The Thing (Outpost 31), complete with a kennel.tvtropes.orgBuilt on Unreal Engine 4, the game was featured by Epic in an official 'Revving the Engine' developer interview.unrealengine.comRead 3 more facts
Until Last Breath20205 factsMario MurklGame page →Until Last Breath is solo-developed by Hungarian creator Mario Murkl, who is also active on YouTube and TikTok.mario-murkl.itch.ioIt began as a free, pay-what-you-want itch.io alpha built in Unreal Engine 4 before its paid Steam release in October 2020.mario-murkl.itch.ioTwo different Hungarian metal bands supplied the music: HangmanJack recorded the in-game and trailer music, while metalcore band HOLdT (drummer Zsolt 'Fachyga' Braun, guitarists Gergely 'Bruce' Benczik and Dániel 'Keke' Kelemen, bassist Zoltán 'Surek' Surányi, vocalist Martin Molnár) recorded the separate 4-track soundtrack DLC.store.steampowered.comThe developer describes the wave-survival gameplay as inspired by Killing Floor, built around a single map that is reworked as the in-game seasons change.store.steampowered.comThe project was migrated from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5 after launch — the May 2023 gameplay trailer showcases the reworked UE5 build in 4K60.youtube.comRead 3 more facts
Until the End20225 factsRed Sorel GamesGame page →Until The End was co-written with the support of a real palliative-care nurse to keep the medical and emotional situations authentic.store.steampowered.comIt deliberately avoids being a dark game: the developer frames palliative care as often joyful, mixing drama and mystery with humour and absurd, 'esoteric fantasy' moments.thegdwc.comThe game was made by a roughly two-person French indie studio, Red Sorel Games, founded by Davy Normand.moddb.comDeveloper Davy Normand discussed the project on the Indie Game International podcast, covering how he tried to 'gamify a visual novel' and the consequences of uploading a demo too early.indiegameinternational.libsyn.comYou play Zoe, a newly graduated nurse in a palliative-care unit, accompanying eight named patients each with a full case file, with multiple endings driven by your choices.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
Until The Last Bullet20235 factsForever Entertainment S. A.Game page →Until The Last Bullet is one of very few modern full-motion-video (FMV) on-rails light-gun games: real Polish live-action actors are layered under gyro-aimed shooting, a deliberate throwback to 1990s FMV light-gun games like Mad Dog McCree.waytoomany.gamesPublisher and co-developer Forever Entertainment is a Polish studio built on remakes and ports of arcade and cult classics, including The House of the Dead: Remake (2022), the Panzer Dragoon remakes and the Front Mission 1st & 2 remakes.nintendolife.comOn Nintendo Switch the game leans on Joy-Con gyro aiming, which reviewers singled out as its strongest, most functional element.gamingdeputy.comIt launched Switch-first on 16 November 2023, with the Steam/PC version following about two months later on 19 January 2024.nintendolife.comThe game supports two-player local/split-screen co-op and has a roughly 2.5 GB download on Switch, reflecting all the full-motion-video footage.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
Until the Last Plane20215 factsCarloCGame page →You manage the airfield rather than fly: you recruit and manage pilots, craft spare parts, refuel and rearm aircraft, then dispatch squadrons on turn-based missions across three nations (USA, USSR, Germany) and about nine week-long operations.store.steampowered.comIt was made by a tiny Italian indie team led by 'CarloC' using GameMaker Studio 2, with development starting around 2019; the developer is an avid War Thunder player who wanted to merge that aviation atmosphere with a management sim.ilvideogioco.comSelf-published on PC (4 March 2021), it was later ported to PS4/PS5, Switch and Xbox by budget indie publisher Eastasiasoft (30 November 2022).eastasiasoft.comA free playable demo covering the first three missions of the USA campaign is available on itch.io, and development was documented in a 'dev's diary' video series.carloc.itch.ioThe developer later reused the brand for a separate 2024 arcade shoot-'em-up, 'Until the Last Plane 1942', released on GameMaker's GX.games platform.gx.gamesRead 3 more facts
Arma 320134 factsBohemia Interactive StudioGame page →Two Bohemia developers, Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar, were ARRESTED in Greece in 2012 on espionage charges while gathering reference material on Lemnos — they spent ~128 days in prison facing potential 20-year sentences before release on bail in January 2013.forbes.comThe fallout renamed the game world: the island originally called Lemnos became the fictional 'Altis' after the arrests — though it's still modeled on the real Lemnos, with Stratis based on Agios Efstratios.engadget.comReal Virtuality 4 made it the first Arma with DirectX 11 and PhysX — and the mod ecosystem it hosts spawned entire genres (DayZ battle royale lineage included).arma3.comProject lead Joris-Jan van 't Land steered the game from 2012 through 2015 — an era in which Bohemia turned a rocky launch into a decade-long platform.arma3.comRead 2 more facts
Bank Roll 200020164 factsAaro "Arzca" RuohonenGame page →Bank Roll 2000 is a fan-made remake of E3L2 "Bank Roll" from Duke Nukem 3D's Shrapnel City episode, created by Finnish mapper Aaro "Arzca" Ruohonen and released on July 31, 2016.msdn.duke4.netWhile staying loyal to the original layout, the remake adds several brand-new areas that weren't in the 1996 level, including a grocery store and a nudie bar, alongside modernized, more ambitious architecture.msdn.duke4.netMSDN (Mikko Sandt's Duke Nukem map review site) rated the map 92/100, calling it "a well-made, worthy remake" of the classic bank heist level.msdn.duke4.netThe map hides a chaingun so well that MSDN's reviewer admitted they couldn't locate it even after two full playthroughs.msdn.duke4.netRead 2 more facts
Barbie: Horse Ride & Rescue20264 factsPikPokGame page →Barbie: Horse Ride & Rescue is developed by PikPok (the New Zealand studio behind Rival Stars Horse Racing) in partnership with Mattel, and is pitched as an authentic equestrian experience for older teens and adults.pikpok.comPlayers create an avatar and join Barbie "Brooklyn" and Barbie "Malibu" Roberts as volunteers at the Roaming Hearts Rescue Ranch in Moonrise Valley, rescuing and rehabilitating horses, barrel racing and solving a mystery.pikpok.comIt launched on iOS and Android on June 16, 2026, with Steam and Nintendo Switch 2 versions planned for 2027.pikpok.comThe mobile version is free-to-play with a "Barbie Riding Club" subscription and in-app purchases, while the PC and console versions are planned as premium pay-once releases without microtransactions.apps.apple.comRead 2 more facts
Besiege20204 factsSpiderling GamesGame page →Besiege spent roughly five years in Steam Early Access (from 28 January 2015) before its 1.0 full release on 18 February 2020.en.wikipedia.orgA December 2017 update added multiplayer and a level editor, inspiring the community to run BattleBots-style siege-machine tournaments.en.wikipedia.orgThe 2024 expansion 'The Splintered Sea' added water physics that touched every system in Besiege; the studio chose a paid-DLC model over another Early Access cycle.gamedeveloper.comBuilt in Unity, the game holds an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam rating across more than 50,000 reviews.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
BoneCraft20124 factsD-dub softwareGame page →Captain Fort Worth is voiced by Neil Kaplan — the actual voice of Tychus Findlay in StarCraft II, making the StarCraft parody weirdly authentic.animationxpress.comIts June 2019 Steam release was a deliberate test of Valve's newly relaxed adult-content policy — D-Dub issued a press release billing it as a 'controversial' milestone for the platform.businesswire.comD-Dub shipped 'BoneCrafter', billed as 'the first ever mod kit to combine sex and fighting' — official mod tools for an adult parody game.d-dub.comDespite parodying Blizzard's two biggest franchises by name, no Blizzard lawsuit or cease-and-desist against BoneCraft was ever recorded.kotaku.comRead 2 more facts
Cat Goes Fishing20154 factsCat5GamesGame page →The game's core fishing mechanic and some original art trace back to Fishing Girl, a 2008 prototype Daniel Cook posted on his Lost Garden blog as a design challenge.jayisgames.comThere is no set plot — progression is a pure upgrade loop: catch fish, earn money, buy better rods, boats and radar to reach bigger, tougher fish.store.steampowered.comAll in-game music is royalty-free work by composer Kevin MacLeod (incompetech), used under Creative Commons Attribution.incompetech.comA relaxing physics-based indie hit largely popularized through YouTube Let's Plays, with 'Very Positive' Steam reviews.steamspy.comRead 2 more facts
Cat's Kiss20214 factsNarrator & STORIA · NarratorGame page →The Chinese title 貓研社 roughly means 'Cat Research Society' — a pun the English title 'Cat's Kiss' drops entirely.vndb.orgThe premise is a fairy-tale curse in reverse: heroine XiangLi is a woman trapped as a black cat who must be kissed every morning to regain her human form — by a down-on-his-luck noble turned delivery driver.store.steampowered.comIt comes from Taiwanese studio Narrator & STORIA, whose catalog spans from the acclaimed all-ages A Light in the Dark (2018) to adult titles published under the imprint 'Lewd Formosa' — 'Formosa' being the historical name for Taiwan.store.steampowered.comCharacter art is by EJAMI, a well-known Taiwanese illustrator — the only individually credited staff member on the project.vndb.orgRead 2 more facts
Cortex Command20124 factsData RealmsGame page →Cortex Command spent ELEVEN YEARS in development — Daniel Tabár started it in 2001 and version 1.0 finally shipped on Steam in September 2012.en.wikipedia.orgIt won two IGF awards in 2009 — the Audience Award and Technical Excellence — three full years before it was actually finished.en.wikipedia.orgEvery pixel of terrain is simulated as a material — gold can be mined, dirt tunneled, and bodies buried — in Tabár's own 'Retro Terrain Engine'; Data Realms open-sourced the game's code in 2019 and a community fork (Cortex Command Community Project) continues development.en.wikipedia.orgThe game was part of the second Humble Indie Bundle in 2010, which introduced it to hundreds of thousands of players pre-release.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Cry of Fear20134 factsTeam PsykskallarGame page →The city is secretly Stockholm: in-game areas are renamed real locations — Sankt Eriksplan became 'Saxon Avenue', Humlegården 'Waspet Gardens' — and the apartments replicate the building where Rönnberg's father lived.en.wikipedia.orgAndreas Rönnberg filmed himself at a shooting range to get the gun animations right — for a free mod running on the 1998 Half-Life engine.en.wikipedia.orgRönnberg made his first horror mod, Afraid of Monsters, at age 13 — Cry of Fear is its spiritual successor.en.wikipedia.orgA full remake was started and then abandoned — its production time and cost surpassed the original's — and Rönnberg considers the story complete, with no sequel planned.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Dig-Rock: Documentary of Youthful Sounds20254 factsDesign Factory · Idea Factory (Altergear)Game page →DIG-ROCK started in 2019 as a MintLip drama-CD / 2D rock-band music project and ran across several CD series (BLUE×RED, HOUND ROAR, -signal-, BREAK TIME) before this 2025 Switch visual-novel adaptation.handthatfeedshq.comThe game is published under Idea Factory's Altergear brand (launched at Dessert de Otomate 2022), which specializes in stories about friendships and bonds between men — distinguishing it from Otomate's classic romance otome line.news.qoo-app.comThe player is cast as a documentary filmmaker following two bands — rookie Impish Crow and superstar RUBIA Leopard — over one month leading up to an outdoor concert, with how you portray them being player-driven.gematsu.comNo official English localization exists — the game is Japan-only on Switch, and the only English route is an unofficial fan-translation project.dig-rock-tl.wixsite.comRead 2 more facts
Distraint20154 factsJesse MakkonenGame page →DISTRAINT was created almost entirely by one person — Finnish developer Jesse Makkonen — who handled the graphics, animation, coding, story and music himself.jessemakkonen.comThe game was built with Clickteam Fusion (originally Multimedia Fusion); Clickteam has repeatedly featured it as a flagship #MadeWithFusion horror title.pcgamingwiki.comA short, roughly two-hour experience, DISTRAINT follows Price, an ambitious young man who seizes an elderly woman's property to make partner at a firm — and confronts the price of his own humanity.en.wikipedia.orgMakkonen released the enhanced DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition — with improved art, animation and audio — as a free upgrade to existing owners, and later followed it with a sequel, DISTRAINT 2 (2018).store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Dungeon Devotion20254 factsPink TeaGame page →Developer Pink Tea is a prolific adult-game studio with around six titles on Steam, including Realms Of Bondage and Slave Lords Of The Galaxy.steambase.ioBefore its Steam release, the game circulated on itch.io in versioned community builds (from v1.2c up to roughly v1.8c).itch.ioThe solo developer announced the game's Steam approval on Patreon, describing it as 'my short pixel clicker game.'patreon.comYou play as 'the Dark One,' a fallen demi-god rebuilding a harem of worshippers by clicking to generate 'Devotion'; later updates added a fishing minigame.steambase.ioRead 2 more facts
Evoland Classic20124 factsShiro GamesGame page →Nicolas Cannasse built it in about 30 hours for Ludum Dare 24 — and won 1st place overall out of roughly 1,400 entries.gameconnect.netIt's written in Haxe — fitting, because Cannasse is the creator of the Haxe programming language itself.en.wikipedia.orgThe free jam version drew 300,000+ players within a couple of months — momentum that led Cannasse to co-found Shiro Games with Sébastien Vidal and expand it into the commercial Evoland (2013) and Evoland 2 (2015).en.wikipedia.orgIt's one of the very few Ludum Dare jam winners ever to grow into a commercially successful multi-game franchise.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Field of Glory II: Medieval20214 factsByzantine Games · The Slitherine GroupGame page →Field of Glory II: Medieval was designed by Richard Bodley Scott, the author of the original Field of Glory tabletop miniatures rules — his research showed armoured-knight combat needed different combat and manoeuvre systems than the ancients game, motivating a distinct medieval title.wargamer.comThe base game covers a tight 1040-1270 AD window with 29 nations and 57 army lists, which the publisher describes as offering 'tens of thousands of permutations'.slitherine.comFive DLC expansions extend the era and map well beyond the base window: Reconquista, Swords and Scimitars (Crusades), Storm of Arrows (14th-century longbows), Rise of the Swiss and Sublime Porte (the rising Ottomans).store.steampowered.comIts asynchronous multiplayer scene runs on Slitherine's PBEM++ server — the play-by-email tradition that is a signature of the wargaming community.slitherine.comRead 2 more facts
Fractured Space20164 factsEdge Case Games Ltd.Game page →On October 25, 2018, Edge Case Games announced it was ceasing development of Fractured Space — and within weeks the studio was acquired by Wargaming, with reporting suggesting the game was retired to clear the way for the acquisition.delistedgames.comThe servers went dark at the end of February 2019 and the game was removed from Steam on February 28, 2019, making this free-to-play space MOBA permanently unplayable.steamcommunity.comEdge Case Games grew out of Born Ready Games, the UK studio behind Strike Suit Zero — Fractured Space swapped that series' fighter dogfights for lumbering five-kilometer capital ships.gamegrin.comIts writing team included James Swallow, the bestselling author known for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and numerous Star Trek and Warhammer 40,000 novels.delistedgames.comRead 2 more facts
Hero Zero20164 factsPlayata GmbHGame page →Hero Zero launched in January 2012 as a free browser game from Hamburg-based Playata (published with European Games Group) and only arrived on Steam four and a half years later, on July 5, 2016.mmorpg.comAccording to Playata, more than 35 million players have created heroes in the game since its 2012 launch, making it one of Germany's most successful humorous browser MMOs.playata.comThe game supports cross-platform multiplayer: browser, mobile (iOS/Android) and Steam players share the same game worlds and can duel each other.store.steampowered.comPlayers start literally as a "zero" in pajamas and level up by doing mundane neighborhood chores, fighting villains with deliberately absurd everyday gadgets — the tongue-in-cheek premise the whole game is named after.herozerogame.comRead 2 more facts
Hot Brass20214 factsWalk with Kings · Fellow TravellerGame page →Shooting is actively discouraged: the core loop is shouting commands ('Police! Freeze!') to make suspects surrender, and shooting a non-hostile target fails the mission instantly — a perfect mission requires zero infractions and zero casualties.hotbrassgame.comHot Brass was made by a two-person team in Victoria, Australia — Adam Scoble and Jacques Mulder of Walk With Kings, previously part of the Western Press team.yogomi.comThe abstract, symbol-based top-down art style deliberately replaces realistic violence with minimalist iconography — while missions span hostage rescues, bomb threats, biker-gang busts and casino heists.hotbrassgame.comIt supports 1-4 players in both online and local co-op, published via Treasure Hunters FanClub — a funding collective run under license by indie label Fellow Traveller.treasurehuntersfanclub.comRead 2 more facts
Mini Settlers20254 factsKnight Owl Games · Goblinz Publishing, IndieArkGame page →Mini Settlers spent nine months in Early Access, launching on 8 August 2024 and graduating to its 1.0 full release on 6 May 2025.store.steampowered.comThe game carries two publishers — Goblinz Publishing and IndieArk.store.steampowered.comDespite the name, Mini Settlers has no connection to Dinosaur Polo Club's Mini Metro and Mini Motorways — the confusion is common enough that Steam forum threads ask outright whether it comes from the same studio.steamcommunity.comMini Settlers ships an unusually deep accessibility feature set for a small indie builder, including adjustable text size, camera comfort options, adjustable difficulty, a mouse-only control option and playability without timed input.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Monopoly Poker20214 factsYouda Games · Playtika (Azerion at launch)Game page →Mr. Monopoly himself deals every hand — and the classic board runs as a live progression layer over the poker: winning hands moves you around the board collecting property cards, building houses and hotels for bonus chips.azerion.comIt's a fully Hasbro-licensed product — the Monopoly name, board, corner squares, Mr. Monopoly and the game pieces all carry Hasbro trademarks dating back to 1935.azerion.comThe game changed hands mid-life: Azerion sold developer Youda Games' entire portfolio — including MONOPOLY Poker — to Playtika in August 2023, which is why stores now credit Playtika.globenewswire.comDespite the gambling theme there is no real-money play: chips have no cash-out value, and the publisher explicitly labels it 'for amusement only', intended for players 21 and older.apps.apple.comRead 2 more facts
Mount Your Friends20134 factsStegersaurus Software Inc.Game page →The whole game exists because of a bug: Steger says adding the 'dong physics' at TOJam produced a glitch so funny he laughed for five straight minutes — and decided the game had to ship.gamedeveloper.comThe grandiose classical score is Kevin MacLeod's royalty-free library music — MacLeod featured the game on his own site after streamers like PewDiePie and Sips gave the music shout-outs.incompetech.comA decade later Steger thanked players who enjoyed it 'online with strangers, or even just watching Streamers goof around with it' — the Twitch/Let's Play wave is what made an XBLIG oddity a cult hit.x.comIt got a sequel with one of gaming's best subtitles: 'Mount Your Friends 3D: A Hard Man Is Good to Climb' (2018).store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Pico Park: Classic Edition20164 factsTECOPARKGame page →TECOPARK is essentially a one-man studio: Teco designs, programs and draws everything, with Tadosule contributing the soundtrack as composer.pico-park.fandom.comDevelopment began around 2013, and the 2016 Steam original supported local co-op only — online play arrived with the 2021 remake, whose bilibili and streamer-fueled explosion (Sykkuno, Valkyrae, then PewDiePie) turned PICO PARK into a worldwide hit and got this original renamed "Classic Edition".automaton-media.comIn 2026 the Classic Edition was accidentally given away for free on Steam; unable to restore its pricing, TECOPARK declared it "free forever" — and then removed it from the Steam store entirely on June 14, 2026.gamesradar.comA 2025 visual refresh quietly upgraded the Classic Edition with online support and up to 10-player co-op — far beyond the original's local-only multiplayer.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
PowerWash Simulator20254 factsFuturLabGame page →The Apple Arcade version launched on December 4, 2025 with the full Career campaign and the SpongeBob SquarePants Special Pack included, plus touch controls, gyroscope support and an exclusive new Scratch Mode.futurlab.co.ukPowerWash Simulator originally hit 1.0 in July 2022 under Square Enix Collective; developer FuturLab later took publishing duties in-house for subsequent releases like this one.en.wikipedia.orgThe game became a research instrument: an Oxford Internet Institute study on video games and wellbeing used a special research build of PowerWash Simulator to collect real-time mood data from players.en.wikipedia.orgIts post-launch Special Packs turned into a crossover parade — Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VII, SpongeBob SquarePants, Warhammer 40,000, Back to the Future, Shrek and Alice's Adventures have all had washable content.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Pressure20214 factssmt · smt (self-published)Game page →Pressure was built in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 48 (April 2021), whose theme 'Deeper and deeper' is the game's literal structure — an infinite basement you descend floor by floor for high scores.smt.itch.ioIt runs on Unreal Engine 4 (4.26.2) — an unusually heavyweight engine choice for a 48-hour jam game, where most entries use Unity, Godot or GameMaker.smt.itch.ioHealing is entirely skill-based: no health pickups — you regain health by chaining combo kills, landing long-range shots, banking projectiles off walls into enemies, or reaching the green zone to drop a floor.smt.itch.ioThe anonymous solo developer 'smt' (itch.io bio: 'the guy') is a Ludum Dare regular — Pressure is one of six-plus jam entries including Quickdraw (LD41) and Meals On Rails (LD46).smt.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
Redmatch 220214 factsRugbug Redfern · RedlabsGame page →It's the sequel to the 2019 itch.io original Redmatch — solo dev Rugbug Redfern shifted all focus to the sequel, iterating it through itch.io devlogs before the June 2021 Steam launch.rugbugredfern.itch.ioDespite being one person's free game, it ships localized into ~25 languages and runs a custom 'Enforcer' anti-cheat.store.steampowered.comDeveloper Rugbug Redfern is also known in Landfall's Content Warning community as the author of the 'Mycelium Networking' modding library — multiplayer networking is his specialty.github.comThe early menu music was royalty-free Kevin MacLeod ('Werq') before being replaced with custom tracks — the whole game was built with Unity, Blender, Paint.net and Audacity.rugbugredfern.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 Multiplayer20134 factsTripwire InteractiveGame page →The mod team that co-developed Rising Storm became Antimatter Games — which went on to make the full sequel, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam (2017).en.wikipedia.orgTripwire president John Gibson summed up the experiment: 'something started and created by a mod team, but polished to perfection by a group of professional developers'.gamewatcher.comComposer Lennie Moore deliberately channeled Aaron Copland and Charles Ives for the American side's music — at Tripwire's own request.yourclassical.orgIt beat the year's giants to PC Gamer's Multiplayer Game of the Year 2013 on the strength of its brutally asymmetric banzai-vs-firepower Pacific battles.pcgamer.comRead 2 more facts
SimCasino20204 factsLVGameDev LLCGame page →SimCasino is scored by Jerry Martin — Maxis' former audio director and the lead composer of SimCity 3000, SimCity 4 and The Sims — who returned to sim games after roughly 15 years to write its jazz-flavoured soundtrack.en.wikipedia.orgThe simulation goes deep: you set the house odds yourself, manage chip floats and card-deck tracking, and run security with cameras and interrogation rooms against thieves and cheaters — plus a first-person mode to walk your own casino floor.store.steampowered.comIt spent almost exactly a year in Early Access, launching 22 November 2020 and reaching 1.0 on 16 November 2021.steambase.ioDeveloper LVGameDev is literally a Las Vegas studio — the 'LV' is the city — and SimCasino is its second management sim after SimAirport.workwithindies.comRead 2 more facts
Soulstice: A Tale of Two Souls20164 factsMidipixel · Midipixel & Estúdio Vaca Roxa (self-published)Game page →Soulstice was created for GBJAM 5 (October 2016), a jam requiring games to follow original Game Boy limitations. Submitted about 15 hours before the deadline, it ranked #20 Overall and #13 in Graphics among roughly 400 entries.itch.ioThe game is an adaptation of "The Academies of Siam", a short story by the celebrated 19th-century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, retold as a co-op tale of the magical couple Kinn and Kala swapping souls and abilities.midipixel.itch.ioKotaku featured Soulstice in its GBJAM 5 roundup "Game Boy Jam Shows Everything That Made The Handheld Special" (October 2016).kotaku.comIts local co-op mimics a Game Boy link-cable session: the two players' views run in side-by-side windows with dueling Game Boy color palettes, and the sound was composed to sound authentic to the original handheld hardware.midipixel.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
Texas Hold'em Poker: Pokerist20104 factsKamaGames · KamaGames Ltd.Game page →Pokerist launched in 2010 (originally titled 'Texas Poker') as KamaGames' founding title; the company celebrated a 'decade of Pokerist' in 2020 and the game's 16th birthday in 2026.casinobeats.comThe game surpassed 150 million registered players worldwide by 2020, powering a group that generated $125.1 million in revenue that year — its sixth consecutive year of growth.venturebeat.comChips are a non-cashable social currency: a VIP-points system rewards chip purchases and tournament play with luxury gifts, dedicated support and bonuses, and promo events have given away pots as large as 200 million free chips.kamagames.comKamaGames says Pokerist has reached #1 Top Grossing on the App Store and Google Play in 101 countries; founder/CEO Andrey Kuznetsov built the Dublin-based company after relocating from Russia to Ireland.kamagames.comRead 2 more facts
The Henry Stickmin Collection20204 factsPuffballsUnited · InnerslothGame page →The first five chapters began as free Adobe Flash 'choose-your-own-path' games on Newgrounds and Stickpage (2008-2015); the Collection remasters them in HD and adds the exclusive finale 'Completing the Mission.'henrystickmin.fandom.comIt is published by Innersloth, the same studio behind Among Us (co-founded by creator Marcus 'PuffballsUnited' Bromander and Forest 'ForteBass' Willard); Among Us characters even appear as collectible items in 'Completing the Mission.'simple.wikipedia.orgFor the 2020 release, the entire series was rebuilt from dying Adobe Flash into the Unity engine.connect.unity.comIt holds 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam user reviews, around 98% positive from 39,000+ reviews.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
The Showdown Effect20134 factsArrowhead Game Studios · Paradox InteractiveGame page →This is the game Arrowhead made right before Helldivers — director Johan Pilestedt went on to lead Helldivers (2015) and the blockbuster Helldivers 2 (2024).en.wikipedia.orgIts 2018 delisting was reportedly a mistake of sorts: Paradox pulled it after shutting down the microtransaction store server, apparently believing that made the game unplayable.delistedgames.comFans brought it back from the dead: 'The Showdown Effect: Reloaded' launched free on Steam on 5 March 2024 — the original's 11th anniversary — under a non-commercial license Paradox granted to GIII Holdings.pcgamer.comIt runs on Bitsquid — the Swedish engine that later became Autodesk Stingray.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
The Tenants20214 factsAncient Forge Studio · Frozen DistrictGame page →The premise is deliberately ethically gray: you're a landlord dealing with problematic tenants, deciding how to react to annoyed neighbours or police interventions — with edgier events like drunk tenants and criminal background checks.ancientforgestudio.comIt shares its publisher with House Flipper: Frozen District (majority-owned by PlayWay) publishes both, making The Tenants part of a direct property-sim lineage.gfn.co.krThe game ships with Steam Workshop mod support, 86 achievements and 18 languages, plus a Pets DLC.store.steampowered.comIts console launch came late (June 2025) — and the PlayStation version was pulled from sale within about a week, landing it on delisted-games trackers.delistedgames.comRead 2 more facts
The Witcher Battle Arena20154 factsFuero Games · CD Projekt REDGame page →A 3v3 MOBA featuring eight playable heroes drawn from the Witcher series, each with three skills, built for touchscreen play — CD Projekt RED's first mobile game.en.wikipedia.orgIts gameplay was heavily inspired by League of Legends and Dota 2, though the developers added their own solutions rather than shipping a straight clone.gamepressure.comIt was co-developed by CD Projekt RED and Warsaw studio Fuero Games on the Unity engine, released free-to-play on 22 January 2015 for Android, iOS and later Windows Phone.en.wikipedia.orgThe servers were closed on 31 December 2015, giving the game a lifespan of under a year and rendering it unplayable ever since.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Until It's Undone20204 factsApeHardwareGame page →All of the game's graphics are edited photos, stock images, doodles or pre-rendered 3D models — the developer explicitly states no part of it is AI-generated.apehardware.itch.ioIt was the developer's first project made in the Godot engine.apehardware.itch.ioThe game has been reissued three times under punning subtitles — Undone, then Ungraded, then Unmastered (the Steam remake) — each a graphical/content overhaul rather than a sequel.store.steampowered.comIt's an 'anti-point-and-click': you unmake surreal, Lovecraftian puzzles by typing commands to escape a strange rural town.apehardware.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
